Coachella Announces 2015 Dates

Coachella’s 2015 dates have already been announced. The Coachella festival will take place on two consecutive weekends from April 10th to the 12th and April 17th to the 19th Indio, California at at Empire Polo Grounds. General admission passes are priced at $375, while VIP passes are $799 on the primary market. Of course, we’ll have all secondary market Coachella tickets as well.

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Since its inception in 1999 Coachella has become one of the the largest and best music festivals to hit North America bolstering a fantastic lineup made up of some of the biggest names in music. This year Coachella once again will be one of hardest tickets to find as it will be headlined by the likes of Arcade Fire, Muse and for the second straight year Outkast on April 11-13 and the following weekend April 18-20 at Indio’s Empire Polo Club.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of their first album (Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik) Outkast, the legendary hip-hop duo, will be making their much anticipated reunion at Coachella just like Iggy & The Stooges, Portishead and Pixies before them. The two rappers, Andre 3000 and Big Boi split up following the release of Idlewild in 2006 to better concentrate on their solo careers and will close out the festival on Friday following acts the likes of Swedish avant-garde duo The Knife, supergroup Broken Bells and superstar DJ Zedd with Ellie Goulding, Haim, Chromeo, The Replacements, Neko Case, Bryan Ferry, Afghan Whigs, The Glitch Mob, Martin Garrix and AFI just some of the names also confirmed to play the first day.

In what will surely be one of the best festivals of the year and there are still thousands of Coachella tickets are still available on TiqIQ with three-day passes available for the first weekend at a get-in price of $482 and an average price of $918.17 with the second weekend going for $413/$756.41. With Coachella tickets selling out at the box office in less than three hours, the secondary is now your only buying option.

The headlining band on Saturday will the be progressive-rock trio Muse who will be playing fresh off of their 122 show The 2nd Law World Tour which ends the week before. Also playing on day two of the festival will be dubstep pioneer Skrillex, one of the most musically gifted people there is Pharrell, the teenage singer Lorde in addition to Queens Of The Stone Age, Foster The People, Pet Shop Boys, MGMT, Empire Of The Sun, Fatboy Slim, The Naked and Famous, Kid Cudi, Sleigh Bells, Cage The Elephant, Capital Cities and Nas.

On Sunday, the final day of Coachella, Arcade Fire will headline and close out the entire weekend, taking a break from their own Reflektor tour to do so. The variety of acts is what makes Coachella great because while Arcade Fire is an indie-rock band they festival also has legendary metal veterans Motorhead, pop music from Lana Del Rey, and one of the top EDM performers Calvin Harris joining the likes of Beck, Neutral Milk Hotel, Disclosure, Alesso, Duck Sauce, Little Dragon, Beady Eye, The 1975, Chance The Rapper and Rudimental on the same day.

(UPDATE) Coachella has announced artists for a series of shows in venues around Los Angeles that will happen in-between the two Coachella Music Festival weekends in April. Several acts announced includes HAIM, MGMT, Foster the People, Motörhead, Bryan Ferry, Chromeo, Mogwai, CHVRCHES, Broken Bells, Neko Case, The Afghan Whigs, Cage the Elephant, Dum Dum Girls, Little Dragon, Future Islands, DJ Falcon, Factory Floor, The Dodos, and Grouplove. More about these sideshows can be seen below:

(UPDATE) This year, Coachella will be offering live broadcast of the festival on YouTube & AXS TV. This will be the first time they’ve ever done this. The first weekend (4/11-13) will be streamed on YouTube, while the second weekend (4/18-20) will be broadcast on AXS TV. According to reports, viewers will be able to watch behind the scenes footage, interviews with artist, on-demand video playbacks and over 20 hours of live footage.

(UPDATE) There were several huge cameos during the first weekend of Coachella this Saturday. During Pharrell’s headlining set, Nelly, Busta Rhymes, Gwen Stefani and Snoop Dogg. Then, during Nas’ set which included most songs off his 1994 classic, Illmatic, he brought out Jay-Z and Beyonce. Clearly, it was an impressive list of surprise guests. The only question now is who will make an appearance this weekend?

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This year’s line-up will have to go some way to top Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre bringing Tupac back to life. But with Blur, The Stone Roses, Phoenix and Red Hot Chili Peppers confirmed as headliners, Coachella tickets for 2013 are understandably still the hottest property on the US festival circuit with tickets selling out in just 21 hours. Currently, we have just over 200 weekend passes available for the opening weekend starting at $183, and over 450 for the second weekend starting at $49.

Staged in the remote desert setting of Indio’s Empire Polo Club, the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival first arrived on the live scene in 1999, just three months after the disastrous final ever Woodstock.

Initially a two-day camping-free event, the festival slowly grew in stature over the next decade thanks to performances from world-renowned artists including Beastie Boys, Madonna, Leonard Cohen, Jay-Z, Rage Against The Machine and Prince, and by 2012, had become so popular that organisers decided to extend it to six days over two consecutive weekends.

But anyone with Coachella tickets for the 2013 spectacle, held over the April 12-14 and 19-21 weekends, can indulge themselves in a similarly eclectic feast of the best contemporary music has to offer.

In addition to headline sets from two of Britain’s most influential guitar bands, Friday artists include the recently reunited Jurassic 5, Trent Reznor’s side-project, How To Destroy Angels, and Mercury Prize winners Alt-J, as well as several bands currently enjoying their biggest commercial success (Foals, Tegan & Sara), veterans Sparks and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and long-awaited returns from Modest Mouse and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Saturday’s roster is equally intriguing with French synth-rock outfit Phoenix joined by comebacks from The Postal Service and Franz Ferdinand, a DJ set from Moby and performances from soundtrack favourites The xx and Sigur Ros alongside names from the worlds of Latin rock (Café Tacuba), French electronica (Birdy Nam Nam) and Detroit hip-hop (Danny Brown), not to mention the man behind the “Harlem Shake,” Baauer.

Anthony Kiedis and co. will then bring their mammoth I’m With You tour to a close on the two Sundays. But not before the likes of superstar DJs Eric Prydz and Paul Oakenfold, synth-pop outfits both old (OMD) and new (La Roux) and a reformed Wu Tang Clan have taken to the stage, while just two days after appearing with Grinderman, Nick Cave will make his second appearance at the festival with The Bad Seeds.

Those with Coachella tickets that want to stay on site for the whole weekend can also park their tents on various lush beautiful grass fields adjacent from the performance areas with facilities including showers, a general store and internet café with free wi-fi. While just as much a celebration of the visual arts, festival-goers can also enjoy an array of installations and sculptures located throughout the polo grounds.